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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Julie Gilliland at
</span><a href="mailto:jgilliland@beckcenter.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">jgilliland@beckcenter.org</span></a><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 4, 2021
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts Flips The Script<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For
<i>The Teen Untitled Sketch Show</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lakewood, OH</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">–</span><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck
Center for the Arts</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> announces
</span><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/youthshows-teen"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Teen Untitled Sketch Show</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Available for convenient streaming, this production allows for maximum creativity Beck Center students.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s upcoming Youth Theater production presents a unique opportunity to bring out more than these students’ acting skills; this process also allows for real life writing
for stage experience. For the first time in Beck Center Youth Theater history—the play is being written by the students who will perform in it. Many of these students have performed in past Beck Center Youth Theater productions written by instructors and directors
Rachel Green and Russ Stich so they have been close to the process of crafting a new production. The pandemic created an opportunity for students to take a turn in the writer’s chair to write “together” via Zoom, and craft the sketches they will be performing.
The production will be filmed in-person, with all participants masked, and socially-distanced. Students of Beck Center, not limited to youth theater classes, were invited to audition for this piece.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/mission-history/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patrick Ciamacco</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
directs and guides the writing process. Patrick has a history with Beck Center for the Arts, as a director and performer, including performing as a last minute replacement for a lead role in a past holiday production. In addition to directing, designing and
performing all over the Cleveland area, Patrick is also the Artistic Director and a co-founder of
</span><a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Blank Canvas Theatre.</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Patrick says,
of this experience of directing a teen show, while working with the 24 students, “This has been one of the roughest years… but theatre, and everyone involved in this show, help make each day a bit better. With the nature of our lives these days, artists are
starved to create and collaborate. So we thought it would be fulfilling for the students to not only act in a piece... but also to create that piece from scratch. Putting all of their creative minds to work to create a truly original show." A student from
this production even designed the show art. It is truly a collaborative effort. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This limited virtual engagement runs March 25 to 28, 2021 on any device in the comfort<br>
of your home, as part of Beck Center for the Arts’ 73<sup>rd</sup> Youth Theater Season. The show will stream on-demand starting Thursday, March 24 and run through 8:00 pm EST on Sunday, March 28. For more information please visit
</span><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/youthshows-teen"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">beckcenter.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center is located at
</span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=17801+Detroit+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">17801 Detroit Avenue</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
in Lakewood. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Programming at Beck Center for the Arts is made possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council. Beck Center gratefully acknowledges the generous funding provided
by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">productions on two stages,
<span style="color:black">arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, creative arts therapies for individuals with disabilities, free gallery exhibits year-round, and outreach education programming.</span></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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